Chapter 951: Five Spines and Six Beasts
Thinker Novel Network
When it comes to travel, the impression given to people is that it is crowded, but in fact, as long as you are diligent, you can enjoy the fun of chartering even in the peak tourist season. As soon as you open the door, rush in, ignoring the dispensable scenic spots near the door. When most tourists are still dawdling, you have already passed the Ten Thousand Mountains in a light boat, and went straight to the deep places that are worth savoring. The essence of the scenic spot was observed alone.
Of course, when it comes to travel, different people have different preferences. Just like some people like to travel with a group, they think it is convenient, safe and worry-free; Stop and stop, fully enjoy the fun of travel, and don't have to be pulled into the jewelry store by the tour guide for forced shopping.
Zhang Zian likes to travel freely, and hates being surrounded by noisy tour guides nagging and persuading you to go shopping—it's definitely not because of stinginess.
Considering the situation of the elves, when he planned to visit the Forbidden City, he decided to observe the flag-raising ceremony first, and then buy tickets early in the queue, and rush in as soon as the gate of the Forbidden City opens.
He told the elves about the plan, and he lined up, while the elves jumped over the walls of the Forbidden City and met inside. As for the elves with poor jumping ability and flightlessness, such as snow lions and π, Femas carried them there. Although the courtyard walls of the Forbidden City are high, there are many places that can be leveraged. For example, at the 90-degree corner, with the jumping ability of Feimas, it can alternately fold and jump between two adjacent courtyard walls, and finally climb over the courtyard wall .
When telling the story to the elves, he vowed that if the Forbidden City allowed pets to enter, he would not hesitate to earn money to buy tickets for them, but whoever made the Forbidden City administrators not enlightened, then he had to evade fares, blame me?
He made himself sound like a victim, which left the elves speechless, but they were used to it anyway.
The group of primary school students had also finished their meal, and they were lining up under the organization of two female teachers to throw the food packaging bags into a nearby trash can, while the two male teachers went to buy tickets with the letter of introduction issued by the school.
The normal fare of the Forbidden City is 60 yuan. University, middle and primary school students can buy a student ticket with their student ID card and letter of introduction. The fare of a student ticket is 20 yuan, but it is stipulated that children under 1.2 meters can be exempted.
Pupils in the same class have different developmental and nutritional status, as well as different heights, shorts, fats, and thins. This leads to some people having to buy student tickets, while others can enjoy the free ticket policy. In order to save money, as a last resort, the teachers had to arrange the 40 or so students in order of size. Those over 1.2 meters would follow the teacher to buy tickets, and those under 1.2 meters would just sit and wait.
Looking at such a funny scene, Zhang Zian couldn't help but think of the regulations prohibiting keeping large dogs with a shoulder height of 35 centimeters or more...
Richard scratched him on the head, warning him not to think about it, and be careful to enter the shooting list for next month.
Zhang Zian asked the elves to go over the wall—of course not over the wall on the Internet. He went to buy tickets by himself, and met the male teacher who had greeted him before, but the other party was so busy now that he was sweating and had no time. Greetings, just nodded with a wry smile.
The Forbidden City has fully implemented online ticket sales since 2017. Tickets can be purchased from online reservations or by scanning the QR code on the spot. Ask him to place the order on his behalf.
After buying the ticket, Zhang Zian went to wait for the door to open. There were already some people waiting at the scene. He pushed his body sideways without any trace, and was rolled his eyes by other tourists, which meant that it was so empty, why are you squeezing? It's not about squeezing the bus...
After finally squeezing to the front, the time was almost up, and the staff signaled that it was time to enter, so he rushed in first.
After entering, he was not in a hurry to enjoy the scenery of the Forbidden City, but first looked for the elves to see if they jumped in smoothly.
"Quack! This way! This way!" cried Richard, flapping his wings.
Zhang Zian walked over quickly, and at the same time glared at it, telling him to keep his voice down. Fortunately, other tourists were still dawdling behind to take pictures, and no one heard it, otherwise, 80% of them thought it was haunted.
The elves all came in, and Femus did a good job.
They looked around and saw the countless courtyards and palaces, all of them were so surprised that they thought they were dreaming.
"Hey, the emperor of China really knows how to enjoy it!" Richard flew to the highest point it could reach, but still couldn't see the end of the Forbidden City, and there were palaces all in sight.
"Zian, how big is the Forbidden City?" Old Cha asked.
"The specific area is not clear, but it is said that there are a total of 9,999 and a half rooms in the Forbidden City. In fact, there are not that many, only more than 8,000 rooms." Zhang Zian introduced.
"More than 8,000 houses?" Even Fei Na was shocked this time, "How can the emperor of China live here? It will take more than 20 years to live in one room every day!"
"This is pomp. If it weren't for this, how could it show the difference between the emperor and the common people?"
"More than 8,000 houses... Then can we finish shopping in one day?" Femas asked worriedly.
"First of all, only one-third of the Forbidden City is open, which is basically concentrated around the central axis, and the remaining two-thirds are not open to the public. In addition, even if the areas that have been opened, there is actually no need to visit them all. Because it’s nothing more than similar houses with minor differences, just pick some key areas to have a look.” Zhang Zian motioned as he walked and said, don’t let the tourists behind catch up.
Generally speaking, most of the tourists who come to visit the Forbidden City early in the morning want to spend a whole day visiting all the areas that can be visited in the Forbidden City. Therefore, after tourists come in, only a small number of them, like Zhang Zian, go directly through the Gate of Supreme Harmony and continue to go north. Walking with the Hall of Martial Arts, the two palaces exhibit ceramics, calligraphy and painting respectively.
Walking on the empty bluestone, looking back at the large group of tourists crawling slowly like snails, and looking at the elves who can wander freely without avoiding the tourists, Zhang Zian is glad that his decision is correct.
Passing through the majestic square, holding on to the white marble railings, and stepping on the steps that have withstood wind and rain for thousands of years, they came to the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
"Zian, the old man is dazzled, what kind of animal is that on the eaves?" Old Cha raised his paw and pointed upwards, squinting his eyes.
On the resplendent glazed tiles, a string of strange-shaped animals is neatly arranged, shining under the sunlight.
Cats' eyesight during the day was not very good, and they were not good at seeing far away. Lao Cha could only see a few blurred outlines, but couldn't see the specific images of those strange beasts.
"Oh, those are celestial beings and ridge beasts. The first one is the celestial being riding a crane, followed by dragons, phoenixes, lions, celestial horses, seahorses, 狻猊, yuyu, Xiezhi, bullfighting and Xingshi. There are ten kinds of strange beasts in total. , are all auspicious things in ancient legends that guard houses to avoid evil." Zhang Zian couldn't say so many uncommon nouns in one breath, so he looked it up with his mobile phone, and then introduced it to the elves.
"It sounds like there are not many real animals. The imagination of the ancient Chinese is really rich." Fina curled her lips and said in a disinterested manner, "Why can't we use cats, crocodiles, jackals, and eagles like the Kingdom of God? What about being a holy beast?"
Zhang Zian said hehe, why don't you just say why there are no cats among the ten kinds of strange beasts? Why bother with crocodile jackals and other deceptions...
Of course, for the sake of safety, you can only think about this in your heart, but you can't say it.
After listening to his introduction, Laocha silently stared at the ridge beast on the eaves, and then said doubtfully after a while, "Zian, is this old man dazzled? I counted several times, but no matter how I counted, there are Eleven kinds of strange beasts..."